Thursday THREATCON – 09 July 2015

It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the removal of the confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol grounds, our Threatcon Color Code is REVANCHIST RED

As efforts to remove the confederate flag succeed, frightened white ‘patriots’ have begun turning out to defend the “heritage” symbol of racial supremacy. This past weekend, a parade of flag-waving pickup trucks took place in my own corner of Alabama as the scared, angry white participants showed us all how not-racist they are by blocking off black drivers at stoplights to yell and curse at them. Not only does this speak to the racialized angst that is omnipresent in conservative politics, but culture warriors are clearly converging their reactionary issues underneath that banner. The confederate flag is increasingly turning into the right wing symbol of reaction to modern America, opposing gay rights and abortion and pluralism (such as Muslims helping black churches rebuild after arson). This theme will likely crystallize over the next few days as the most virulent forced-birth activists in the country gather in Montgomery, Alabama to admire the confederate memorials and hear Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore pontificate about the evils of ‘sodomite marriage’ — an event we will be covering here at BU

Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) wants his party to impeach “activist judges” on the Supreme Court. Of course, Brooks isn’t talking about the Citizens United decision or Shelby County v Holder. Only gay weddings and Obamacare qualify as “activism” on the federal bench

Your US RDA of outrage porn: Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, a hate group against unarmed people and liberals, telling Armed America Radio that Dylann Roof targeted the Emanuel AME church in Charleston because they were unarmed liberals: